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VERAULT said:
I realize its not for everyone as its super dense (which equates to artery clogging buttery goodness) and the candied fruit is from a very far gone bygone era. I have never been a texture person ... as I like rice pudding and cottage cheese.

But i hear you on the chocolate. Chocolate is really the only candy I like.
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Yeah I was one of those kids. Didn't like banana bread or brownies if it they had nuts, etc. No idea why. But I've gotten over that in recent years. Maybe I should try fruitcake again.
 
falter said:
Yeah I was one of those kids. Didn't like banana bread or brownies if it they had nuts, etc. No idea why. But I've gotten over that in recent years. Maybe I should try fruitcake again.
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I never took to banana bread or fruitcake either, but I will say that a friend recently introduced me to panettone, which was very lovely indeed - not overly rich or sweet, just kind of a soft, chewy sweetbread with aromatic spices and citrus/raisins. That I can 100% get behind.
 
Aka Italian Babka... sure panetone is good. I prefer real eastern european Babka.

Another holiday Ukrainian bread (easter) is sweet poppyseed pastry. I love it but my wife doesnt...
 
commodorejohn said:
I never took to banana bread or fruitcake either, but I will say that a friend recently introduced me to panettone, which was very lovely indeed - not overly rich or sweet, just kind of a soft, chewy sweetbread with aromatic spices and citrus/raisins. That I can 100% get behind.
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I'll have to try that! Wonder if someone in town here makes it.
 
The wife fucked off on the 1st December 2023 taking her idiot brother with her, so this Christmas has been the best in years...:)

Repaired a skateboard for the neighbors kids.
 
Bought myself one of these for Xmas - $47.70 delivered. Should keep me busy for a while.
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Willem 5.0B EPROM programmer.
 
Perhaps our traditional English roast with five veg shown below can balance up the diet mentioned on this thread. Today I have been lighting candles instead of indicator bulbs on a computer control panel. Yes, a happy Christmas to all of you and yours but also please spare a thought for absent strangers. Although just my wife and I spend Christmas together at home our ten unknown homeless guests are also sitting down to Christmas dinner at a Christmas reception centre somewhere as well as getting all the comforts and companionship that we so easily take for granted. Perhaps some will even be put on the path towards having a place that they can also call home in the new year. Goodwill to all.

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syzygy said:
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Did anyone else enter this xmas programming contest? I think I spent more time figuring out the submission form than writing the code - which may be inversely correlated with the probability of winning.
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So, they showed all of the entries.

Here is mine.
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Basically, you just had to draw that pattern that you see on the right using any computer (retro preferred of course) and you could use any language. I always like those, "how to look at things" programming problems. My goal was to write an 8086 assembly language program to do that and I have not written a program in 8086 assembly in 30+ years. Having a working clone XT, I figured (for no discernible reason) that this was a good thing for me to try and do. This much I can state unequivocally, it did not all come back to me. Not that I was ever a whiz at 8086, but I had a hard time remembering all that stuff. Use it or lose it, I suppose; or maybe, lose it and take the time to find it, might be more accurate. In any event, I finished it in a relatively small amount of time and hit my mini-goal. My code length is 429 bytes. Now, I knew much better could be done, but I did not know HOW MUCH better.

Let me tell you that I saw one 8086 entry that did it in 32 (thirty-two) bytes - talk about humbling :). The thing is, that was NOT the winning entry!

You can see them all here.
 
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